The Battle

We must develop an attitude and world-view that each of us are invaluable to one another if we are to inherit the fullness of His kingdom.

John 13:35

By this all will know that you are My disciples, IF you have love for one another.

The battle is over before it begins when we despise and lack in honor for one another. Honor is the demonstration of our love for one another.

I think before we can even go into a proper battle against principalities, powers, rulers and spiritual hosts, we have to prepare ourselves by not wrestling against flesh and blood.

Makes you wonder, are we losing the battles in our lives because of the devil or because of offenses?

Lack of honor, if you would say, is like a cat chasing it's own tail or, to put in more bluntly, a man biting his own feet when it's injured. Trust me, by this time the devil won't even need to attack you because he's thoroughly entertained by the performing circus act.


We have to remember that we are one body in Christ. (1 Corinthians 12:12, Colossians 1:18 - for those of you that need a Bible verse for support)


What is the conclusion of the matter? 

• Forgive one another as Christ forgive you and don't take offenses. (Ephesians 4:32, Colossians 3:13, Ecclesiastes 10:4)

• We must develop an attitude and world-view that each of us are invaluable to one another if we are to inherit the fullness of His kingdom.

Valuing His Acts

For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

(1 Corinthians 13:9-12)

The acts of God are signs that reveal His nature. Love, healing, deliverance, providence, protection are some of His natures. He doesn't only love us but He is love. He doesn't only give healing, He is healing. He doesn't only deliver us from bondage, He is deliverance. He isn't just the protector but He is our protection. He is not our provider, He is providence. In other words, signs and wonders are a reality leading to a greater reality, the knowledge of Himself.

[Exodus 3:1-4]

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”

So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

Moses was an example of a man that understood the importance of valuing an act of God so much so that when He saw a seemingly natural phenomena (a burning bush) he paused and turned aside. The difference between Moses and most Christians is, Moses turned. And sometimes the action of pausing what we do on our daily routine and turning our thoughts and affection to Him is what leads us to an encounter with His nature. It is His acts that leads us to a direct encounter with His nature.

In a season of great encounters and testimonies of healings, deliverance, supernatural providence and favor, let us never stop hungering for more. Let us not put a value on what is a bigger miracle or a lesser miracle. Let us continue to celebrate His acts, even the tiniest of things. Let us take on the posture of children being excited by what the Father has to give. Valuing His acts leads us to an encounter with His nature.

'THAT'S A GOOD WORD RIGHT THERE'
The renewed mind sees potential in a moment.
Bill Johnson

2011 - My E2 Summary

I started off the year halfway into reading a book titled 'Face to Face with God' by Bill Johnson. Throughout the time reading this book, my hunger and thirst for God was at an all time high. In other words, I was desperate for God. I was desperate to see the all illusive "face of God".

Three months passed where life and ministry were at a steady pace. Some good happenings where I saw some souls being saved through my disciples such as Miikael and Chris Chua recommitting his life to Jesus in January. A girl named Nanthini was also saved and began to see visions and hear God's voice. In February we saw another girl accepting Christ into her life called Yi Xin and an unchurch Christian named Vyonne came to church and experienced God real in her life as well.

I also was appointed to serve as the Worship Coordinator for my local church's worship squad. It has been an honor and privilege to lead a wonderful group of revivalist the past year. (Here's a side note that came to mind while writing this post. God spoke to me 6 years back that I would lead a worship team and 6 years later without me imposing anything or promoting myself, here I am. That's what you call a fulfillment of a vision being impregnated in your heart for a period of time.)

Through all this excitement and new people and tasks coming across my life, I still was in a state of desperation for a personal encounter with the face 'I AM'.

On March the 3-5, I was told by my dad that he got some free registration for a conference in Singapore and he wanted me and my brother to go with him. I heard that the speaker would be Randy Clark and at that time I didn't know who this person was except that I heard rumors that this man was the "si-fu" of Bill Johnson (the guy that wrote the book I was reading). Honestly, I was pretty hesitant to go because by nature I HATE TRAVELLING!!!
But by force I was shipped off to Singapore against my will (these are the times where your leader/father knows what's best for you).

On the first day of the conference we got our conference's tag and it wrote "Healing & Impartation 2011". I was thinking to myself, "Great. Something I already know and practice. This is gonna be a waste of time". Little did I know what was about to happen next would change my life forever. Thank God for His grace but I think by this time I was at His mercy.

To cut the long story short, at the end of one of the sessions called 'Baptism of the Spirit', the feeling of being desperate to meet God face to face started bubbling in my spirit again. With my hands raised in desperation and my eyes closed, I was hit by the power of God and my whole body started to shake uncontrollably. It was not long that I heard people crying and noises on the floor as if things were dropping (they were humans). I believe that a massacre happened that day where many people died to the world and resurrected alive in God. After the whole trip to Singapore, I wondered to myself, "Will anything change this time?" You have to understand that I've been a Christian since I was in my mother's womb and I have encounter the tangible presence of God many times in my life. That is why this question came to mind.

It was exactly a month later, on April the 6th, as we were worshiping in church in the morning that I saw two angels in the form of a whirlwind spinning around the church hall violently. It was a shocking phenomenon as I was standing in awe. Then Jesus appeared to me, standing in front of me. I went straight to hug Him as soon as I saw Him and I went into His being and He into me. He also gave me some things to bring back home. I won't go into the details of what they are for but in all He gave me 3 things - a pair of boots, a purple robe with golden inlays and an necklace of an emblem of promise that He is always with me. I then turned around and as I started to stride off, I turned into a black stallion and I was then in the church hall again.

As the day went by, my memory of what had happened was still so clear in my mind. I hadn't even given time to think whether it was my own imagination or was it a vision or "WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?!", that it was already the next day - 7th of April, the day of the outbreak of glory invasion church wide.

Here are some of the dates that I managed to record down when I had glory encounters (by the way, 2011 was also the year I started using a diary. Started using in January before all of these things. What a year to start heh?) - 6-10 April, 15-17 April, 22 April, 24 April, 27 April, 29 April, 1 May, 20 May, 27 May, 21 June, 3 July, 10 July, 15 July, 29 July, 7 August, 26 August (multiple times), 16 September, 16 December. All these has made my relationship with God grow into an intimacy like never before. Prophecies through me are sharper than ever, His revelations quicker and clearer than ever, my identity surer than ever, my inner world "kingdomized" than ever and His perfect love and affection for me tangible than ever before.

I also was privileged and blessed throughout the year to have gone to a few more conference by sought after fivefold leaders such as James Goll (Open Heaven Conference, Singapore), Dan MacCollam (School of Supernatural Ministry, Singapore) and Rodney Howard Brown & David Newberry (Asia Ablaze, Malaysia). WHC Wind & Fire Camp was also a great time of ministering and soaking (I don't have much to say about the camp because I was serving and doing the games most part of it. I have lots of joy from this too because everyone had a GG time - Grace & Glory time).

I was also blessed to sit under some superb heavenly revelation Sunday after Sunday by our senior church leaders, David & Gloria Wong. Sermons such as 'Shema Shema-A Hearing Heart', 'The Former and Latter Rain', 'The Acts of the Holy Spirit', 'Deeply Loved, Highly Favored, Richly Blessed, Powerfully Anointed, Always Successful', 'A Transformed Mind', still ringing bells in me.

The end of the year was now my time to be the revivalist. I thank God and still do for giving me an opportunity to speak to a youth camp last December. It was a glorious time where I witness youths being impacted by the glory and grace of God. The fire of the Holy Spirit was moving and by the end of the camp, we saw miracles of uneven legs growing, people seeing angels and heaven for the first time in their life and mindsets of old being broken and replaced with the kingdom perspective.

Many others were also added to the kingdom of God. Around 18 people were saved through my disciples. Many people think that I am a great leader but truth be told, that is only part of the equation. The other half of it is I have wonderful disciples. My job is fairly easy because of such humble and sacrificial people. Just right qualities for revivalists in the making.

I want to give thanks for the past year and be fully satisfied by it but still ravenously hungry for Him this year. I believe that this is the year of fulfillment and the start of a perpetual unstoppable jubilee. This is the year of the end of the world and the beginning of the kingdom. I would like to end this post with the offering statement we read in church. Let it be a value system we subconsciously live by and not just a lifeless repetition. Let's read it out together :D

Ready? 1... 2... go!

As we go through this year
We are believing You for:

Heaven opened, Earth Invaded
Storehouses unlocked, and Miracles created;
Dreams and Visions, Angelic Visitations
Declarations, Visitations, and Divine Manifestations,
Anointing, Gifting, and Calls,
Positions, and promotions,
Provisions and Resources,
to go to the nations;
Souls and more souls,
from every generations,
Saved and set free,
Carrying Kingdom revelation!

Thank You, Father, that as I join my value system to Yours, You will shower FAVOR, BLESSINGS and INCREASE upon me so I have more than enough to co-labor with Heaven and see JESUS get His FULL REWARD.
Hallelujah!!!!!!

Sustaining A Supernatural Environment

As the year comes to a close, I personally am bracing myself for what is to come in 2012. Some beliefs say that 2012 will be the end of the world. I personally believe so too. I believe that 2012 will be the end of the world and the beginning of a worldwide kingdom invasion. A worldwide jubilee, revival!

The word wineskin has kept popping up in recent weeks since my trip to Frasers Hill (it was a blast seeing what God was doing at the TOD Youth Camp). Matthew, Mark and Luke recorded this event where Jesus mentions about the wineskin and it is important to take note at what Jesus said (Matthew 9:16-17, Mark 2:21-23, Luke 6:36-38).

I believe that the outpouring of the knowledge (experiential knowledge) of God and His kingdom signals a need to reconstruct our lives and the way we govern our ministry. Ephesians 4:11 talks about the Church and how it is to function and 1 Corinthians 12:27-28 states an order of governance. We must not ignore Scripture and use templates gleaned from earth's governors in an attempt to replicate Heaven. Only Heaven's template can reproduce Heaven on the earth.

Here are some excerpts from the book 'Culture of Honor' by Danny Silk.

When we use other models, the Church becomes no more than what people already expect from their earthly experience. This is a huge and fundamental mistake, with serious consequences. I think we've been duped! When we use man's governing systems to define or reproduce Heaven, we've started down the path of implementing an inferior system. This will not only not reproduce Heaven but create a dysfunctional culture. Heaven will not conform to or replicate an inferior system. Heaven must be the source.

I've heard Bill Johnson say many times, "Jesus is perfect theology." I agree. If we see Jesus doing it, then we are on to something good. If He wasn't doing anything like what we are doing, we'd better ask ourselves, "What went wrong?"

I believe as we end this year, let us re-align our lives to not only what God has spoken but what God is speaking!

For the move of the Holy Spirit to perpetuate, we must constantly have a reconstruction of our internal world to the form of Heaven. We are the other side of Heaven!

I highly encourage and urge anyone of you reading this post to read and re-read and meditate on the 2nd chapter of the book 'Culture of Honor'. This is the time and season for what is written there to be read. Be blessed as we move into new things and sustaining a supernatural culture!

Rainbows and Sunshine

As the close of the year is just around the corner. Many people look back at the year only to hope that next year will be better. It's been such a difficult year for me and seems like the passion for love has left me and hurts seem to be the current reality that could prolong. But I know that God has cornered me to deal with my problems and issues rather than just sliding them under the carpet and pretend they aren't there. I realized that the human heart can only take so much before it explodes. Because of issues that are not dealt with, things will only go from small mistakes to big problems. A wrong definition of "dealing with hurts" would be "moving on". Moving on does not take you to use your mind or heart and it certainly is far from actually dealing with the issues. In fact, you'll be deceiving yourself and problems, like garbage, over time, will turn from bad to worse. Bringing things before God actually does take boldness because when weaknesses are exposed, we might "look funny" and the hurts feel so real. And we can come to His throne boldly because it is a throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16). Often people evaluate whether a year was good by how much money they have in their bank account, or how smooth things went their way but sometimes the worst happenings in a year turn out to be the best things that could happen to us in our life time. We can't determine the outcome of tomorrow by the pain we suffer today. Jesus encouraged us not to worry about tomorrow since today has enough of its own problems (Matthew 6:34). Why do we need to deal with these problems? Coz' we will either be slaves to guilt and pain or be free to celebrate life. So, choose!

As for me I don't know when I'll be fine again but I have to trust God that He is watching over me and He is in control. I know that my measure of being out of control cannot be equated with any standard of love, hope and faith He puts on me. Even for a prophet, we don't see everything. Thanks Papa that you're not a prophet, You are YAHWEH!

Lets keep our hearts open before Him because Jesus is the only one that can set us free from pain. Don't bottle up and think that hopefully things will get better. You need to do something. You need to come to Him. Jesus isn't a pain killer, He is a pain healer!

Life will never be free from problems but let us always know that after tears are smiles, after rains are rainbows, after storms are sunshine.

If you've read this post and feel something burning it your heart, feel free to contact me. :)

'SAY - LAH (SELAH)'

Having God fearing friends and accountability to leaders are a great benefit in hard times. :D

Open To All, Closed To Everyone

One passage in the Bible that has become one of my favorite stories is that of Luke 24, the road to Emmaus. Recently I came across verse 45 of the chapter and it really popped out, so to speak, and made me really excited to get it's meaning and a question came to mind, "HOW DID HE OPEN THEIR UNDERSTAND!?". The reason that got me really excited is that Jesus promised us in John 14:12 that we would do greater works than Him. So I must say that the thought of being able to partake in what Jesus did in Luke 24 would be an awesome inheritance.

As how I usually get some reference, I checked out my all-time favorite blog http://skipmoen.com. I was very excited to have found something Skip wrote about Luke 24:45 when I typed in his search engine 'Luke 24:25' and 2 articles/post were found. Here's what he says,

1st post: THE FIRST FRUITS OF THOUGHTS

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, Luke 24:45

Opened – Oh, how I wish I had been there. These two men, walking from one village to another, encounter the greatest teacher of all time. As they follow the dusty road, he begins to explain the Scriptures to them. He opens their minds. The Greek verb dianoigo has the nuance of opening something for the first time (see Luke 2:23). These Jewish men, trained in the Scriptures all their lives, understood for the first time what it really meant. For years they knew the words, but they were completely ignorant of the meaning. Now Jesus reveals to them what was previously hidden. Suddenly they see.

Aren’t we just like that? We know the history. We know the stories. We think we have the theological arguments in place. We follow the rules. But our minds are closed. Until we have an encounter with the living Lord, until Jesus comes to us and explains the hidden message of His suffering and death, we just carry around a book filled with religious words. Without the illumination of the Spirit, we just don’t get it. We can have all the right propositions, all the right religious rules, even the right theology, but our minds are still closed. It takes a walk with Jesus to give us spiritual enlightenment.

The Bible is the strangest book in the world. It contains God’s essential message to Man. It is crucial for life, here and beyond. But it is a closed book to those who are not touched by the Spirit. You can read and read and read, but without God’s involvement, you will come up empty. This is the only book in the world that is open to all and closed to everyone. “Let him who has ears hear” describes each of us. We all have ears, but our physical apparatus is of no value in this process unless it is accompanied by a spiritual component. Then we actually hear the text.

Don’t imagine that you can simply read a passage in Scripture and understand it. God’s message to men and women requires the agency of the Spirit and the receptivity of a humble heart. When you pick up this book, you need to remember the two men on the road to Emmaus. They knew all the words and yet were completely in the dark. They needed Jesus to open their minds for the first time. So do we.

2nd post: CLOSED SHOP

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, Luke 24:45

Opened Their Minds – Luke expresses the thought in a truly Greek way. “Opened their minds” is the Greek phrase dienoizen auton ton noun. Literally, it is “he opened up the mind of them.” That’s interesting, isn’t it? The pronoun (auton) is plural but the noun (ton noun) is singular. Even in this Greek construction, we see a Hebrew perspective. The verse does not say that Jesus opened each one of their individual minds. It says that He opened up the collective understanding. The truth was revealed to them as a unit, not as individuals in the unit. When we translate this verse, we move the meaning to a Greek worldview. So we convert the group consciousness to individual apprehension. What Jesus says is revealed in community, not in individuals. That’s important, especially in a culture where individualism reigns supreme even in religious experience.

The Greek verb is dianoigo. It implies opening up what was closed. It is used to describe the experience of a firstborn child – to open the womb for the first time. In the LXX, it translates the Hebrew word paqah. This verb is often used to describe the experience of seeing something that was hidden. When Jesus causes His disciples to “get it,” they suddenly discover what was there all the time. It was just hidden from their understanding.

The implication is actually rather staggering. This event occurs after the disciples are fully aware of the resurrection. These men had studied the Hebrew Bible all their lives. They learned to read from its texts. They heard it read aloud every Sabbath. They probably were more acquainted with Scripture than any ordinary Christian today. But they still didn’t see the bigger picture. They were eye witnesses to the greatest manifestation of God in history and they didn’t understand what it meant. Jesus had to open up their minds.

What this means is that Scripture is not apprehended by intellectual prowess alone. Scholars do not command exclusive rights to spiritual wisdom. Why? Because the truth of God’s Word lies hidden until the Spirit opens a passageway into a person. It’s perhaps ironic that the oldest form of the Hebrew language is pictographic. Like Egyptian hieroglyphics, early Hebrew used symbols to represent letters. The consonants DRB make up the word dabar (which means “word”). The pictograph carries the meaning “a door into a person.” God’s Word is an opening into me, but it will never be what it is supposed to be until God opens the door. This is not the picture of Jesus knocking. This is a picture of the active word, pushing aside the door to enter into me. What this means is straightforward. You will never understand what the Bible is saying unless God opens the pathway into your consciousness.

You can’t get it by reading, studying and memorizing. Without the Spirit’s intervention, the door stays closed. Maybe reading your Bible needs to start with something besides opening the book.

Here are 2 scriptures to really bring everything into perspective.

In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. (Luke 10:21)

Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but in understanding be mature. (1 Corinthians 14:20)

Bill Johnson wrote a one-liner recently on his Facebook page, 'Gifts are free, maturity is expensive'.

Truly our Father hides things for us not from us :D

Living In Godliness

I've been studying and reading about this word godliness recently. And I've come to realise that many people have been living their live contrary to the word 'godliness' that was used by Jesus and various apostles such as Paul and Peter. Thanks to a curriculum that my dad wrote called 'Discipleship 200' under the chapter 'Kingdom Qualities', I'll be writing many things base on that, a very good book indeed.

The word 'godliness' in Greek that they used often in text such as 2 Peter 1:5-7, Titus 1:1, 1 Timothy 4:6-8, 1 Timothy 6:3-5 and etc. was the word eusebeia which means a true and vital/essential relation with God.

It is the opposite of the word threskeia, meaning an outward act of religious observances or ceremonies.

In Acts 10:1-4, we see a centurion named Cornelius that was a devout (Gk: eusebus) man which God was so pleased with that He sent an angel to tell him that his prayers and alms were acceptable before Him. In other words, this guy Cornelius was a person that went to church every week, never skipped any prayer meetings, gave his tithes and offerings regulary, reads his Bible everyday, probably fasted very often too and there was a special celebration, a festival you might say, in heaven because of his deeds. Seems pretty obvious hes a "godly" man and God sent him an angel to praise him coz he's doing all these "religious" stuff. But before we come to any hasty conclusion about what's upon God's mind, we see so often Jesus rebuking the superficial charitable deeds, prayer, and fasting of the religious people of Jesus' day (Matthew 6:1-17).

The final stage of maturity of threskeia is fanaticism. An extreme pride for one's conviction.

Now, the attitude of Cornelius was an important factor in the whole process. He was a eusebus man. He wasn't athreskeia sort of person. In Acts, you will come across that Cornelius did things because he feared God. In other words he didn't do all this things so people could see how "faithful" he was. He simply gave and worshipped because he had a true and a vital relation with God. He loved God because he loved God. Nothing more nothing less. He had a relationship with the Almighty God. A relationship that he understood was special to him and that it didn't matter what people thought of him but what God thought of him. He didn't give in to the pressure of what people thought of him. He didn't try to prove anything before God because he knew that he was already in a relationship. He wasn't doing all those stuff because he needed recognition. He didn't do all those stuff because he needed God to notice him or love him more.

Religion is working for something you already got by relationship. Cornelius knew that very well!

Godliness is always and will always be eusebeia. A wonderful relation with our Father in heaven, our Creator.

I hope your blesse by this note. For further in depth in thought of this subject, check out the 'Discipleship 200' book. I'll try to get better at my writing and maybe add in a few personal encounters of my own in the next edit.

Also check out http://skipmoen.com/2009/04/29/buried-by-desire/
You'll surely be blessed by this amazing teacher. God bless!